Improvement in whips



No. 192,447. a

WITNESSES: @Wfi W. H. MILLIKIN.-

WHIP.

Patented Jurle 26,1877.-

N-PEI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHDGHAPHER, WASHINGTON. Dv C.

ATTDBNEYS.

WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,447, dated June 26,1877 app ati filed June 13, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN, of Baltimore city, State ofMaryland, have invented a new and Improved whip; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the jointed portion ofthe whip-bod y with the stocking in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is asimilar view of the butt portion of the whip-body. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6are cross-sections taken upon the lines opposite in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig.7, a view of the whip-body, showing the application of the oiled fabricwound in reverse direction from the twist of the rawhide.

My invention relates to an improvement in carriage-whips; and itconsistsin combining a rawhide tip with a rattan core or wedge, and afterwardstoclring'the same, then wrapping it with oiled silk ormuslin in thereverse direction from the twist of the rawhide, and finally coveringthe whip with the finishing web, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, A represents the rawhide tip, and B the rattan core orwedge, which are united at a point near the middle of the whip, butslightly nearer the tip than the butt. The rattan core or wedge is madesquare, and has at its jointed end a central tapering wedge-shapedopening, such as is employed in joining the said core to whalebone tips,as ordinarily practiced. The tip is the regular solid rawhide, ofsuitable length, squared at its butt or larger end, as shown in Fig. 4,and terminating in a tapering wedge, which corresponds to and exactlyfits the wedge-shaped opening in the rattan core, into which opening itis inserted and securely retained by gluing. The next step in theconstruction of the whip is the stocking of the same, which consists inapplying to the flat sides of the rawhide and rattan strips (J G for thesides and corners, which are made of rattan, and extend past the spliceof the rawhide to strengthen the joint. This stocking, as thus applied,is glued in place, and then turned down to a round and smooth taperingbody for the whip. About the whip-body, as thus formed, is then wrappedoiled muslin or silk instrips D, the wrapping being in the reversedirection from the twist of the rawhide. This wrapping may extendthroughout mits a much more secure joint in gluing than does the dry andporous whalebone. The wrapping of the oiled silk or muslin also forms aprotective binder for the entire whip, and, being wrapped in the reversedirection from the twist of the rawhide, the latter is not liable tobecome untwisted.

After the whip-body has been formed in accordance with my invention itis covered with the usual webbing or outside cover, the handle is loadedand finished, and a suitable cracker is attached to the tip.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A whiphaving a rawhide tip and a rattan stock, and provided also with awrapping of fabric in strips wound about the whip-body in the reversedirection from the twist of the rawhide, substantially as described andfor the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN.

YVitn esses WM. A. HALL, JOHN Moonn.

